Gen Alpha (2010-2025)
These small creatures come in collectible sets and have names like Pikachu or Charmander.
What is Pokémon?
At concerts for Taylor Swift, fans often trade these handmade items inspired by her lyrics and different eras.
What are friendship bracelets?
This show followed six friends living in New York City and became a defining sitcom of the ’90s.
What is Friends?
This 1985 film features a teenager who accidentally travels back in time in a DeLorean car.
What is Back to the Future?
This 1965 musical film features Julie Andrews as a governess for seven children in Austria.
What is The Sound of Music?
In this game, players drop onto an island and try to be the last one standing.
What is Fortnite?
This internet creator expanded his massive YouTube success into television as the creator and host of Beast Games.
Who is MrBeast?
This boy band from the late ’90s and early 2000s had hits like “I Want It That Way.”
Who are the Backstreet Boys?
This artist, known as the “King of Pop,” released Thriller in 1982, one of the best-selling albums ever.
Who is Michael Jackson?
First sold in the 1960s, this small plastic doll, often dressed in mod fashion, became a cultural icon.
What is Barbie?
This Milwaukee Bucks superstar is nicknamed the “Greek Freak” and led the team to an NBA championship in 2021.
Who is Giannis Antetokounmpo?
This Disney Channel show starred Miley Cyrus as a teen living a double life as a normal high school student and a famous pop star.
What is Hannah Montana?
This Brewers slugger won the 1982 American League MVP and led Milwaukee to its only World Series appearance.
Who is Robin Yount?
This ’80s sitcom featured a family raising three kids in the suburbs, including a nerdy youngest son named Steve.
What is Family Matters?
This 1960s family sitcom set in Mayberry followed a small-town sheriff raising his young son, Opie.
What is The Andy Griffith Show?
After The Tortured Poets Department joked “we declared ___ should be a bigger artist,” this singer lived up to it by performing the national anthem at the 2026 Super Bowl.
Who is Charlie Puth?
This 2023 film release had two cultural phenoms—one bright pink and one dark—and sparked a “Barbenheimer” meme online.
What is Barbie and Oppenheimer?
This early video-sharing platform launched in 2005 and changed how Millennials consumed content.
What is YouTube?
Introduced in 1979, this portable music device used 8-track or cassette tapes and became a staple of Gen X teen culture.
What is a Walkman?
This 1969 event on a New York farm became a defining moment in music history for Baby Boomers.
What is Woodstock?
This viral internet trend began with a rap lyric about a basketball player and gained momentum when TikTok creators paired it with highlights of NBA star LaMelo Ball.
What is 67?
Following rival hockey players Shane Hollander and Ilya Rosanov, this novel-turned HBO Max series became a breakout hit in late 2025.
What is Heated Rivalry?
This band’s 1999 hit “All the Small Things” became an anthem of early 2000s pop-punk culture and MTV.
Who is Blink-182?
Before becoming a beloved Brewers broadcaster, this former MLB catcher turned his self-deprecating humor into national fame as a frequent guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
Who is Bob Uecker?
This long-running Western series, starring James Arness as Marshal Matt Dillon, aired from 1955 to 1975, making it one of the longest-running prime-time TV shows in history.
What is Gunsmoke?